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When homeowners install rooftop solar panels, their electricity bills go down. That's a threat to the profit margins of big utility companies, and in response they are scheming to undermine the...

Twelve years ago, California set a goal many energy experts thought was too ambitious: reduce climate-disrupting air pollution to 1990 levels by 2020. Last week, the state announced it had not only...

The Trump administration's proposals to prop up the coal industry and roll back clean air rules would mean early deaths for tens of thousands of Americans, according to new research.

Sixty percent more methane escapes from U.S. oil and gas operations than the Environmental Protection Agency currently estimates, according to a study led by the Environmental Defense Fund.

Yesterday, a panel of federal regulators unanimously rejected President Trump's order for an emergency bailout of financially failing coal and nuclear power plants. The bailout would have increased...

In his continuing crusade to prop up dying industries, President Trump wants to make Americans pay for expensive electricity from dirty, dangerous coal and nuclear power plants – even if cheaper...

The rate of premature births to California mothers living near coal and oil power plants dropped significantly after the plants were shut down, researchers from the University of California and Johns...

The coal and nuclear industries criticize subsidies for solar and wind power based on their belief that the subsidies distort the market.

The Trump administration is not only trying to revive the dying coal industry, but is working to slow the rapid growth of solar power. But at the state and local levels, governments and citizens...

While the Trump administration is promoting coal, a dirty and dangerous fossil fuel headed for the scrap heap of history, a growing number of communities and companies across the nation are embracing...

The Trump administration is waging war on the laws meant to protect Americans from air pollution, arguing that rolling back regulations on coal-fired power plants, cars and trucks, and other sources...

Across the nation, utilities continue to announce the planned shutdown of nuclear power plants. Early retirement of these crumbling, outrageously expensive and dangerous plants is long overdue. But...

A new report estimated the sweeping public health benefits that a 15 percent reduction in energy demand would yield in one year.

As expensive, dirty coal power staggers toward its inevitable demise, natural gas has come to dominate the electricity market.

Despite efforts by the Trump administration and some states to prop up the coal industry, its future remains bleak.

FirstEnergy, a utility struggling to stay alive in the dying coal and nuclear industries, is once again looking for a bailout from government regulators.

In an era of bitterly divisive politics, there's one thing that unites Democrats and Republicans across the nation: They oppose Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's proposal to allow offshore drilling for...

Fracking for oil and gas poses an impending health crisis in the U.S., two leading groups of health professionals warn in a new report.

“Let it be written that environmentalists didn't kill the nuclear industry, economics did,” Houston Chronicle business columnist Chris Tomlinson wrote last summer.

The rejection of dirty and expensive coal power is accelerating worldwide. Yet the Trump administration continues its desperate attempts to keep a dying industry on life support.